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Warm Up:

“What this advertisement reveals about our culture is that everybody avoids smelling the way they naturally smell.”

"How I prepared for the project was doing research and thinking about similar ads."

Both of the sentences above contain the same grammatical error.

Can you identify the error? How could you rewrite the sentences so that they read more fluidly?

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“What this advertisement reveals about our culture is that everybody avoids smelling the way they naturally smell.”

This advertisement reveals that our culture avoids smelling the way they naturally smell.

This advertisement reveals that our culture avoids smelling natural.

"How I prepared for the project was doing research and thinking about similar ads."

I prepared for the project by researching and thinking about similar ads.

I researched and thought about similar ads to prepare for the project.

To prepare for the project, I researched and thought about similar ads.

�Today's Game Plan

Focus Question: How can we understand White Noise through a postmodern lens?

Moe talks about postmodernism...

Reviewing Postmodernism

In your notebook, complete 2 of the prompts below:

One big idea of postmodernism is...there is no ONE SINGLE TRUTH! We live in a time of what uncertainty.

One trait (characteristic, quality) of postmodern writing is...the message is not always clear, it takes something traditional and adds a twist, conflicting viewpoints, brings attention to fictionality.

In White Noise, I have noticed postmodernism when...Heinrich and Jack are talking about the rain, most photographed barn, impact of media on people's live, how descriptive and how many tangents Delillo takes, plot is fragmented.

A postmodernist theme in White Noise is...consumerism, materialism, searching for meaning, understanding death,

In your reading groups...

Continue reading individually or as a group.

As you are reading, add to your THEME CHART when you notice a theme or idea related to postmodernism.

Share your examples with your group mates.

For example...

THEME	EXAMPLE	SIGNIFICANCE
Visual/Auditory Overload	"I've come to understand that the (TV) is a primal force in the American home...It's like a myth being born right there in our living room" (51).	We learn that the television has a major influence on postmodern America. Like myths, we use the information from the television as a way to explain our world.